About

#AskMollyHale is a hashtag introduced by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) as part of a Q&A on Twitter, encouraging users to direct questions to the fictional character Molly Hale.

Origin

In 2002, the character Molly Hale was created to be the CIA’s public voice. Before Molly's social media debut she was solely responsible for responding to faxes, phone calls, emails, and snail mail sent to the Agency.

On February 4th, 2019, the CIA^[1] took to Twitter to introduce Molly Hale (shown below). The tweet gained 277 retweets and 699 likes in a day.

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On February 4th, The CIA answered two questions posed to #AskMollyHale. Twitter user @SylkeFoubert asked "Does the CIA do "bring your pet to work" days? If yes, are there pictures? #AskMollyHale"(shown below, left). The tweet gained over 100 retweets and 400 likes in a day. Twitter user @KngFish asked "Molly, when is the annual World Facts book published? #AskMollyHale" (shown below, right). The tweet gained 70 retweets and 250 likes in a day.

The CIA explains on their blog ^[2] that Molly is unable to answer questions about recruitment, conspiracy theories, FOIA requests or anything classified. She will also not answer trolls or spam. Many people on Twitter asked disregarded those rules (shown below).

Later that day, the CIA posted to Twitter that Molly will answer more questions later in the week (shown below). The tweet gained 286 retweets and 1,197 likes during the day.

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